DiStream speak

Earlier today I was asked by DiStream to remove the list of Triton games in this post, as some of them were demos of games which weren’t set for distribution. By way of making up, they’ve got back with an official list of games both on and soon to be on their system.

Age of Sail 2: Privateer’s Bounty

Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard’s Throne

Air Raid: This is No Drill!

Alien Blast

Avalon

Chariots of War

Clans

Clusterball

Cops 2170

Cuban Missile Crisis

Diggles

Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy

Gates of Troy

Gun Metal

Hover Ace

I of the Dragon

Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games

Jagged Alliance 2

Jagged Alliance 2 Gold

Legion Gold

Man of War

Man of War 2

Necromania

Nexagon

O.R.B

Patrician 2

Red Shark

Road Rush

Rune

Robin Hood

Shadow Vault

Space Empires 4

Starfury

Strike Fighters

Stronghold

Stronghold: Crusader

Tropico Mucho Macho Edition

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove

Submarine Titans

Uplink

Phew – and judging from the absence of Prey, that isn’t even a complete list!

Particularly interesting is the presence of Space Empires 4, a game already on Steam, albeit in its deluxe iteration, and Uplink, Introversion Software’s first game (their second being Darwinia). There are also numerous Strategy First-published games.

Are Valve regretting lax licensing terms right now? It depends on their attitude; I would say not.

14 Responses to this post:

14 Comments

Dwarden Says:

Sarkie Says:

Even if they aren’t as well known as Valve’s ones, they are a lot of games, but to be fair, the more I look at Triton the more it seems its just an HTTP downloader with a frontend. Uplink is surprising, but is that just the demo?

boglito Says:

Does anyone know how user friendly triton is?

I’m not really talking about quirks and bugs in steam vs distram, but more along the lines of payment options and whether or not you get to download and install the games you buy as often as you please.

One of steam’s very strong points is that it allows you to download whatever you own (or is free) as often as you please, anywhere you please. Last time I tried direct2drive (or was it trymedia, or is that the same?) I got a license to install the game 3 times. Usually that should be enough ofcourse, but I personally feel that unlimited installs is way better than a limit of 3.

I am very excited about Prey, and if distream/triton has the same functionality as steam I might consider giving them a try. Buying online is generally much cheaper than buying retail where I live, and I don’t care one bit for game boxes.

Evan Says:

Our initial model is to allow unlimited streams.
The new client is coming soon, and it will be very flexible.
We are changing the credit card requirement before the prey demo… This will let you either keep an account, or get prompted for each time you want to transact.

Competition is great for the gamer and the market. Personally, I hope Sin does great on steam.

We listen to everyone’s ideas and comments, and you’re going to love Prey..